Wee Wednesday: Christmas Card Photo Fail.

Recently, we decided to attend a little Christmas lights festival, and take some photos. I was hoping we’d get a great family photo with all the pretty lights, and send it out as a Christmas card this year.

But then real life happened. It was that classic moment where I had a vision of us frolicking in the fairy-light-filled trees and getting amazing photos, all joy and family love. I said- ‘we’ll just get someone to snap a photo of us!’

I apparently live in an imaginary world where everyone knows how to use a DSLR. But I now know that isn’t true at all- in fact, most people do not know how to use a DSLR. And those that do, well… Lila had other plans:

From left to right: Lila wants to run around and not be held for a photo; one of the people we asked to take a photo didn’t tell us that her hat was covering her eyes, and then more of Lila trying to get away from me and run around…

From left to right: I have no idea what she is looking at, but it certainly isn’t the camera; we changed locations in hopes that might work, but all we have is this shot where Lila sees something else interesting, and possibly tasty-looking; more blurry shots of a wiggly toddler.

She is just a busy little person on the go, and doesn’t quite understand the whole ‘smile for the camera’ thing, so is often rather confused as to why we’re standing still and what is going on. It’s quite the change from the cooperation I had for last year’s card.

This was the best of the bunch:

but Lila’s got crazy toddler eyes. So Guy decided maybe he could fix it in Photoshop:

So. Much. Worse. We’re going to have to go with a plan B, even though we’re rapidly running out of time to get Christmas cards out! The holiday season just totally snuck up on me this year.